Dad's dinner"

Mount Pleasant Colliery, Buckley

1910

The railway was at first called The Buckley Railway, then The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway, then The Great Central Railway (GCR), and finally The London and North Eastern (LNER).

DAD'S DINNER

Works canteens and staff restaurants are only innovations introduced since the Second World War.

Children before this period often asked to leave school early in order to take "Dad's dinner". It was a priviledge for scholars whose fathers were at work on the kilns or sidings to slip out early. This particular "Dad" drove the shunting engine at Mount Pleasant Colliery. He eagerly awaits a fresh, warm meal.

The site is now Spencer's Industrial Estate.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 41

see entry number 1.51

also, see entry number 1.185 for another version of this subject

Author: Bentley, James

Dad's dinner"

Mount Pleasant Colliery, Buckley

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